| add up add  | back up cause to move backwards; support  |  blow up cause to explode; destroy by explosives  | break down analyze; list the parts of separately  |  
| bring about cause to happen  | bring off accomplish  | bring on cause  |  |
| bring out publish; emphasize  | bring over bring  | bring to revive  |  |
| bring up raise; care for from childhood  | brush out brush the inside of  | burn down destroy by burning  |  |
| burn up consume by fire  | buy out by the other person's share of a business  | buy up buy the whole supply of  |  |
| call off cancel; order away  | call up telephone; summon for military service  | calm down become calm  |  |
| carry on continue  | carry out fulfill; complete; accomplish; perform  | carry over carry; continue at another time or place  |  |
| cheer up cause to become cheerful  | chew up chew thoroughly  | chop up chop into small pieces  |  |
| clean off clean the surface of  | clean out clean the inside of  | clean up clarify; tidy  |  |
| clear out clear the surface of  | clear up clear the inside of  | close down close permanently  |  |
| close up close temporarily  | count in include  | count out exclude  |  |
| count up calculate; count; add to a total  | cross out eliminate  | cut off interrupt; sever; amputate  |  |
| cut out eliminate; delete  | cut down reduce in quantity  | draw up write; compose (a document)  |  |
| dress up put clothes on; adorn  | dust out dust the inside of  | eat up eat completely  |  |
| figure out interpret; understand  | figure up compute  | fill in complete (a printed form)  |  |
| fill out complete (a printed form)  | fill up fill completely (a container)  | find out discover  |  |
| fix up repair; arrange in a suitable manner  | get across cause to be understood  | give back return  |  |
| give out distribute; announce  | give up surrender something  | hand down deliver; pronounce formally; leave as an inheritance  |  |
| hand over yield control of  | hang up suspend  | have on be dressed in  |  |
| have over entertain someone informally at one's home  | hold off delay; restrain  | hold up delay; rob; threaten with a weapon  |  |
| keep up continue; keep the same pace  | leave out omit  | let down disappoint  |  |
| let out release from confinement; make larger (in sewing)  | light up light; illuminate thoroughly  | live down live in such a way as to cause something to be forgotten  |  |
| make over remake  | move over move to the side  | pass out distribute  |  |
| pass up not take advantage of (as an opportunity)  | pass on transmit  | pay back repay  |  |
| pay off discharge a debt completely; give someone his final pay  | pick up come to meet an escort; lift with hands or fingers; learn casually;initiate an association publicly  | play down minimize  |  |
| play up emphasize  | point out indicate  | pull down pull in a downward direction; raze  |  |
| push across cause to be understood or accepted  | put off postpone  | put on dress in; deceive or fool  |  |
| put up preserve (food); receive as an overnight guest  | quiet down be quiet  | ring up the telephone  |  |
| rinse off rinse the surface of  | rinse out rinse the inside of  | rule out eliminate  |  |
| run down trace; disparage; hit with a vehicle  | run off cause to depart; reproduce mechanically  | save up accumulate  |  |
| see through complete; in spite of difficulties  | see off accompany someone to the beginning of a trip  | send back send to a place where formerly located  |  |
| send over send to where someone is  | set up arrange  | show off exhibit ostentatiously  |  |
| shut off cause to cease functioning  | slow up cause to move more slowly  | spell out enumerate; state in detail  |  |
| stand up fail to keep an appointment with  | sweep out sweep the inside of  | take back return; retract a statement  |  |
| take down remove from a high position; write from dictation  | take in understood; fool; deceive; make smaller (in sewing)  | take over take; assume command of  |  |
| tear down destroy  | tear up tear into small pieces  | tell off scold; reprimand  |  |
| think over consider  | think through consider from beginning to end  | think up create; invent  |  |
| throw away discard  | throw over reject  | tie up tie securely or tight  |  |
| tire out cause to be exhausted  | touch up repair  | try on put on a garment to verify the fit  |  |
| try out test  | turn down refuse; lower the volume  | turn out produce; force into exile, extinguish (a light)  |  |
| wash off wash the surface of  | wash out wash the inside of  | wear out use until no longer usable; tire greatly  |  |
| wind up finish, tighten the spring of a watch or machine  | wipe off wipe the surface of  | wipe out wipe the inside of; decimate  |  |
| work out solve  | write down record  | write out write down every detail; spell out  |  |
| write up compose; prepare (a document)  | 
Learning is a lifelong effort. "Consider a language ... language serves to describe a combination of colored squares on a surface. The squares form a complex like a chessboard. There are red, green, white and black squares. The words of the language are 'red', 'green', 'white', 'black', and a sentence is a series of these words. They describe an arrangement of squares in an order." -- Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher (20th century)
Two-Part (Phrasal) Verbs (idioms) - Separable
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